Paris (AFP)
Here are the first political reactions on Twitter to the measures announced Thursday by Prime Minister Jean Castex to fight the Covid-19 pandemic:
- Marine Le Pen, president of the RN: "Containment is what we do when we have failed everything. Slow and inconsistent vaccination, deficient testing policy, weakened public hospital: tonight, the government is making people pay. inhabitants of the territories concerned its repeated failures ".
- Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of LFI: "They denied everything. So they did not plan anything, organized nothing. Back to the Middle Ages: confinement. Then deconfinement. Then reconfinement. The endless screw"
- Fabien Roussel, national secretary of the PCF: "All this lacks clarity, arrives far too late, with French people on edge, a shortage of vaccine and caregivers at their end ..."
- Jordan Bardella, number two of the RN: "Tired of paying for the failures of the government: management over time, shipwreck of the vaccine campaign, no increase in our hospital capacities one year now after the start of the campaign. 'epidemic. They are responsible for this disaster.
- Julien Bayou, national secretary of EELV: "Revolted by this concept of + bet + in health matters. I cannot bring myself to say to myself that I will see or not see my great-aunt still not vaccinated thanks to a successful bet. Jupiter. We don't + bet on people's lives. "
- Sandra Régol, spokesperson for EELV: "The Prime Minister announces that the contamination is minimal on the outside, arguing that these are recent discoveries ... when studies on the contamination have been pointing to the interiors for months".
- Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, president of Debout la France: "Panic, confinement, absurd measures ... And nothing to avoid tomorrow a fourth, fifth, sixth confinement! How long are we going to endure this band of incompetents?!? "
- Bruno Retailleau, president of the LR senators: "The question to ask in view of the new measures which will still cost France billions and have a terrible human blow: where are the additional resuscitation beds promised?"
- Damien Abad, president of LR deputies: "When vaccination is stopped, confinement is in progress. Terrible failure to be forced to confine again. It is time to get out of this management of health crisis that is both anxiety-provoking, talkative and contradictory ".
- Erioc Ciotti, LR deputy: "The French are paying a high price this evening for the lost bet of Emmanuel Macron who last January refused to listen to scientific advice out of political calculation" and "localized confinement is a new error which does not will not make it possible to overcome the pandemic and introduce unjust and incomprehensible territorial inequalities. This is notably the case of the Alpes-Maritimes which suffer a double penalty despite the efforts already made ".
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